Global Retail
The Global Retail Practice covers all international retailing activity; our clients include traditional store multiples and department stores, multi-channel operations, on-line retailers, mail order and TV shopping channels, covering food, apparel and general merchandise. We are experienced at recruiting both executive and non-executive board members, and senior management across the full range of retail functional disciplines. Typically these include Store Operations, Buying, Merchandising and Marketing, as well as Finance, Supply Chain, IT, HR and Corporate Communications.
Our work encompasses not only executive search but also talent spotting and succession planning. Over the last few years we have developed expertise in recruiting for Private Equity backed and family owned businesses in addition to listed FTSE100 and Fortune 500 companies.
Our search partners each bring many years experience of senior level recruitment in the retail sector and have worked on numerous cross border assignments for multi-national businesses. We are flexible and approach every new assignment with imagination and initiative.
The following assignments are indicative of the work we take on behalf of our clients:
Recent assignments
- B&Q Plc - Supply Chain Director, MD Ireland
- Media Markt Belgium - Managing Director
- Tesco - CEO (India)
- British Retail Consortium - Director General
- Marks & Spencer Plc - CFO, Head of HR, Head of Retail, Head of Marketing (China)
- Nuance - Managing Director Denmark
- KarstadtQuelle - Chief Restructuring Officer Germany
- UniEuro - Director of HR, Director of Operations & Sales (Italy)
- Gap International - MD UK Retail & European Franchise Operations
- EMPiK - Chief Executive (Poland)
- Links of London - Managing Director
- Marks & Spencer Plc - Chairman (UK)
- Dixons Stores Group International - Finance Director UK, Company Secretary, UK Property Director
- Merchant Equity Partners - Trading Director – MFI (UK)
- Monsoon - CFO, Merchandising Director (UK)
- Mulberry - Sourcing and Supply Chain Director (UK)
- Notcutts - CEO (UK)
- Primark - Group Director of Systems (Ireland), Director of Sales GB
- Signet Group Plc - Chairman, Finance Director UK
- World Duty Free - Commercial Director(UK)
- Alshaya - Property Directors (Russia, Poland, Kuwait)
- Woolworths South Africa - Group Managing Director
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